This is a list of largest UK trade book publishers, with some of their principal imprints, ranked by sales value.
List According to Nielsen BookScan as of 2010, the largest book publishers of the United Kingdom were:
Penguin Random House £409.9m (23.4%) Penguin: Penguin, Hamish Hamilton, Allen Lane, Michael Joseph, Viking, Rough Guides, Dorling Kindersley, Puffin, Ladybird, Warne Random House: Random House, Century, Hutchinson Heinemann, Arrow; Chatto & Windus, Jonathan Cape, Harvill Secker, Vintage, Pimlico, Bodley Head; Transworld, Doubleday, Bantam Press, Black Swan, Bantam, Corgi; Ebury Press, BBC Books; Virgin Books, Black Lace, Nexus, Cheek; Andersen Press Hachette Livre (UK) £287.9m (16.4%) Headline; Hodder & Stoughton, Sceptre, Quercus; Little, Brown, Abacus, Sphere, Piatkus, Orbit, Virago; Orion, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, Gollancz, Phoenix, Everyman; John Murray; Octopus, Cassell, Hamlyn, Mitchell Beazley, Philips; Orion Children's Books, Hodder Children’s Books, Orchard Books, Franklin Watts, Wayland, Hodder Education, Chambers Harrap HarperCollins £132.3m (7.6%) HarperCollins, 4th Estate, Avon, Voyager, Collins, HarperPress, Blue Door, Harper North Pan Macmillan £57.3m (3.3%) Pan Books, Picador, Macmillan New Writing, Macmillan, Boxtree, Sidgwick and Jackson, Tor (UK), Kingfisher Pearson Education £40.7m (2.3%) Oxford University Press £37.6m (2.1%) Bloomsbury £35.6m (2.0%) Bloomsbury, A&C Black Simon & Schuster £27.2m (1.6%) John Wiley & Sons (UK) £26.7m (1.5%) Faber Independent Alliance £57.4m (3.3%) Faber & Faber, Atlantic Books, Canongate, Granta Books, Icon Books, Portobello Books, Profile Books (including Serpent's Tail), Short Books. A number of financially independent smaller publishers that have formed an alliance to share promotion and administration, led by Faber.Independent Alliance , Faber & Faber Andrew Franklin, Declaration of independents, The Guardian, 8 July 2006 Edward Russell-Walling, Where 'Every Book Counts', Publishers Weekly, 17 March 2008 Tom Tivnan, United they stand, The Bookseller, 1 July 2010
Historical comparisons {| class="wikitable sortable" ! # ! Company ! Sales 2010UK Publishing Groups - Consumer Sales 2005-2010 , The Booksellers AssociationTom Tivnan, , The Bookseller, 24 January 2011 ! ! Sales 2009Tom Tivnan and Philip Stone, Review of 2009 - Tough at the top , The Bookseller, 21 January 2010 ! ! Sales 2008Weathering the Storm , The Bookseller, 22 January 2009. ! ! Sales 2007Alison Flood, Liz Bury, Joel Rickett and Philip Stone, Hachette steals the show , The Bookseller, 24 January 2008Edward Russell-Walling, The Sunny Side of the High Street, Publishers Weekly, 24 March 2008 ! ! Sales 2006The Bookseller, 2 February 2007; quoted here ! ! Sales 2005 ! |- | 1 || Hachette Livre (UK) || £m || (15.2%)|| £287.9m || (16.4%) || £282.5m || (15.9%) || £299.8m || (16.6%) || £277.3m || (16.4%) || £206.1m || (12.5%) |- | 2 || Random House (UK) || £m || (13.8%)|| £239.4m || (13.7%) || £262.7m || (14.8%) || £263.4m || (14.6%) || £261.0m || (15.4%) || £229.9m || (14.0%) |- | 3 || Penguin Books || £195.3m || (11.5%)|| £170.5m || (9.7%) || £177.2m || (10.0%) || £177.3m || (9.8%) || £180.6m || (10.7%) || £174.9m || (10.6%) |- | 4 || HarperCollins || £120.9m || (7.1%)|| £132.3m || (7.6%) || £147.5m || (8.3%) || £142.7m || (7.9%) || £141.6m || (8.4%) || £134.8m || (8.2%) |- | 5 || Pan Macmillan || £60.9m || (3.6%)|| £57.3m || (3.3%) || £57.9m || (3.3%) || £61.4m || (3.4%) || £53.2m || (3.1%) || £54.8m || (3.3%) |- | 6 || Pearson Education || £40.7m || (2.3%) || £42.2m || (2.4%) || £32.3m || (1.8%) || £34.0m || (2.0%) || £32.6m || (2.0%) || || |- | 7 || Bloomsbury || £m || (2.1%)|| £35.6m || (2.0%) || £43.3m || (2.4%) || £74.7m || (4.2%) || £31.1m || (1.8%) || £62.3m || (3.8%) |- | 8 || Oxford University Press || £m || (2.0%)|| £37.6m || (2.1%) || £34.5m || (1.9%) || £33.1m || (1.8%) || £33.1m || (2.0%) || £30.9m || (1.9%) |- | 9 || Simon & Schuster || £31.1m || (1.8%)|| £27.2m || (1.6%) || £24.9m || (1.4%) || £26.9m || (1.5%) || £23.9m || (1.4%) || £24.3m || (1.5%) |- | 10 || John Wiley & Sons || £26.7m || (1.5%) || £27m || (1.5%) || || || || || || || || |- | || Egmont || £24.9m || (1.4%) || £27m || (1.5%) || £24.9m || (1.4%) || £22.9m || (1.4%) || || || || |- | || Elsevier || || || || || £23.0m || (1.4%) || £21.4m || (1.3%) || || || || |- class="sortbottom" | || Faber Alliance || £m || (3.9%)|| £57.4m || (3.3%) || £47.5m || (2.7%) || £39.1m || (2.2%) || £41.4m || (2.4%) || ||
See also Books in the United Kingdom Book trade in the United Kingdom
References
External links 2009 figures and analysis, The Bookseller Tom Tivnan, Half-year review 2011: publisher performance, The Bookseller, 8 July 2011